Tool for rossing and peeling pulp-timber.



Patented Mar. Il, 1992.

- J. n. TURNER.

TOUL FOR RDSSING AND FEELING PULP TlMBEVI.y

(Applicatio led Aug; 9, 1901.)

(lo Model.)

Nrrun @parte `Faisant* @ruina JAMES RICHARD TURNER, OF 1WENTVORTH LOCATION, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

TOOL. FOR ROSSING AND FEELING PULPHTIMBER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,353, dated March. 11, 1902. Application filed August 9, 1901I Serial No. 71,525. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMEs R101-IARD TUR- NER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wentworth Location, in the county of Coos and State of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Tool for Rossing and Peeling Pulp-Timber, of which the following is a specication The invention relates to a tool for rossing and peeling pulp-timber.

The object of the present invention is to provide asimple,inexpensive, and efficient tool adapted tobe readily and conveniently handledand capable of enabling the bark to be peeled and rossed from trees for preparing the latter for the manufacture of pulp.

The inventionlconsists in the construction and novelcombination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a tool constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional View of one end of the tool, illustrating the construction of the rossing-iron. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4t is adetailper'spective view of the inner end of the rod or bar which is provided with the blade for peeling the bark from trees.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

l designates a rod or bar, which is prefern ably tubular and which is provided at its outer end with a broad thin blade 2, having a slight curve 'and provided at its outer end with a cutting edge 3. curved longitudinally, is adapted for peeling the bark from trees, and it will enable the bark to be quickly and effectively removed therefrom. The blade is provided with a solid shank, which is suitably secured to the tubular portion ofthe r'od or bar. The other or inner end i of the rod or bar is preferably closed, as clearly shown in Fig. et, and it is provided with an L-shaped slot or groove, consisting of a longitudinal branch or portion 5 and a transverse branch or portion G, which extends laterally from the inner end of the longitudinal branch or portion to permit a movable lug 7 of a sleeve S to becarried out The blade, which isV tubular shank 10 lits on the inner end of the rod or bar l, and the lug 9, which extends inward from the shank lO, engages the slot or groove near the outer end thereof, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The lug 7, which extends inward from the sleeve 8, operates in a transverse slot 13 of the shank lO, and when the latter is placed on the rod or bar the two lugs or projections are in alinement. When the lug or projection 7 reaches Jthe inner end of the longitudinal branch or portion 5 of the groove or slot, the sleeve is partially rotated to carry it into the transverse branch or portion 6 of the said slot, whereby the rossingiron is securely fastened to the inner end of the rod or bar l. By rotating the sleeve backward the lug or projection 7 may be brought into alinement with the longitudinal slot or groove 5, which will permit the rossing-iron to be readily detached. The lugs or projections 7 and 9 arepreferably formed by pins, which are suitably secured to the tubular shank and the sleeve; but any other construction may be employed. The sleeve Sis placed on the tubular shank l0 before the lug 7 is applied to it, and the lug 7, which preferably consists of a pin, as before explained, is then iixed to the sleeve in any suitable manner. The lug 7 retains the sleeve on the shank 10 when the latter is detached from the bar or rod, and it thereby prevents the sleeve from becoming lost. The shank of the rossing-iron is approximately L-shaped, the outer portion of the shank being arranged substantially at an angle of forty-live degrees to the inner portion of the shank; but the angle may be changed or varied, as desired. The blade 12, which is curved, is approximately cylindrical, its outer end terminating short of the shank to provide a rear opening or space, as shown in Fig. 3. The blade tapers from its outer to its inner edge 14., which is a cutting edge, and it isadapted to be drawn over a tree or limb to remove the bark or scale. The rossing* iron will be found effective in working at the tops of trees, and it will enable the bark and scale to bo quicklyremoved therefrom. The

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broad thin blade 2 is adapted for removingthe bark from otherl parts of trees, and the rossing-iron may be quickly detached to enable the blade 2 and the bar or rod 1 to be used alone.

It will be seen that the tool is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it possesses great strength and durability, and that it forms an effective instrument for rossing and peeling the bark and scale from trees in preparing the timber for the manufacture of pulp.

What I claim is- 1. A tool of the class described provided at one end with an arm extending outward at an angle and having a transversely-curved blade connected at one end with the arm and having its other end terminating short ofA the same, said blade being provided with an inner cutting edge and adapted for rossing trees, substantially as described.

2. Atool of the class described provided with a rossing-iron having an angnlarly-disposed arm terminating in a transversely-curved approximately cylindrical blade formed integral with the arm and having its outer end arranged adjacent to and spaced from the same, said blade being provided Wit-h an inner cntting edge, substantially as described.

3. A tool of the class described comprising a rod or bar, an arm arranged at an an'gle to the other end of the rod or bar, and a transversely curved approximately cylindrical secured to the shank and capable of a limited rotary movement and provided With a stud or projection adapted to be turned into the transverse portion of the said slot, substantially as described.

5. Atool of the classv described comprising a bar provided with an L-shaped slot, a tubular shank adapted to fit on the slotted end of the bar and provided With a transverse slot, a fixed projection arranged Within the tubular shank for engaging the L.shaped slot, a sleeve having a projection extending through the transverse slot of the shank and adapted to engage the L.shaped slot, and a blade arranged at the outer end of the shank, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES RICHARD TURNER.

-Witnesses:

JAMES I. PARSONS, MELBoUnN P. DE LONG. 

